ACORN

[Jester]

Not really. The point I was making was that the Acorn problem comes up every 2 years, not just this year. You don't seem to be able to make rational deductions, so why should I prove to you that 2+2=4. It seems hard for you to fathom that registration fraud leads to voting fraud.

Differentiate for me which of these two hypotheses fits the bill of "rational deduction":

1) ACORN commits voter fraud every 2 years, and is called on it.

2) The RNC finds it a helpful bogeyman to bring up every election, and so drags ACORN to court every 2 years.

It is you who is having difficulties reasoning here, Kandrathe. There is no evidence that these voter registration issues have led to voter fraud. You are simply supposing it into existence. Indeed, if I may borrow the phrase, it seems hard for you to fathom how this *doesn't* lead to voter fraud, despite having an obvious and commonsense explanation that you yourself have given: some people working for ACORN want a free ride, and so fill out cards with nonsense registrations.

There is not a thing in the Constitution that gives congress the power to appropriate any money for charity.

You may not like the way the commerce clause is used, but it is simply a fact of historical jurisprudence that it yields this power to congress, so long as each appropriation can be justified as either a foreign commerce matter, or a matter relating broadly to interstate trade. Most of what has been discussed in this thread clearly falls under the first aegis. Since it is the Supreme Court who gets to decide, and they have decided, your saying otherwise doesn't matter, constitutionally speaking.

-Jester